Strategic Account Executive, Paris France
Job Summary
About Team & About Role
Rubriks sales organisation is a unified group of elite cross functional professionals helping companies across every major industry from financial services and healthcare to manufacturing and the public sector achieve true resilience against cyberattacks malicious insiders and operational disruptions. As a Strategic Account Executive in France you will own some of the most consequential relationships in Rubriks European business: a carefully defined portfolio of Frances largest and most complex organisations where your work shapes long term partnerships built on data security resilience and trust.
What Youll Do
- Own the complete strategic account lifecycle for a focused portfolio of Frances largest enterprises from account planning through C suite engagement commercial structuring and close
- Develop trusted executive level relationships within your accounts that go beyond the transactional anchoring your engagement in the board level priorities that make data security a strategic imperative
- Build and execute account plans that grow Rubriks footprint across business units geographies and use cases turning initial wins into lasting expanding partnerships
- Lead sophisticated multistakeholder sales processes with rigour applying MEDDPICC to qualify accelerate and close complex high value deals
- Partner closely with Solutions Engineers Channel Development and Rubriks partner ecosystem to design solutions addressing the full scope of each accounts risk landscape
- Translate Rubriks technical capabilities into business outcomes that resonate at the C suite level connecting data protection to operational continuity and regulatory resilience
- Feed strategic market intelligence back to Rubriks European leadership including competitive dynamics account trends and opportunities that shape our go to market for Frances largest organisations
Experience Youll Need
- 5 years of enterprise technology sales experience with direct accountability for strategic or named accounts at Frances largest organisations (CAC 40 / SBF 120 or equivalent)
- Proven track record of building and expanding complex multistakeholder relationships within Frances top tier enterprises growing accounts over time rather than closing single transactions
- Fluent in French and English; you engage at the C suite level in both languages with credibility and executive presence
- Deep fluency in the French enterprise landscape including key industries buying patterns and decision making structures at the level of Frances most complex organisations
- Hands on experience with MEDDPICC as a qualification and execution framework across long high stakes sales cycles
- Strong commercial acumen with experience navigating complex multiyear deals at significant value
- Self directed and comfortable operating with autonomy in a high growth fast moving environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Background in cybersecurity data protection backup/recovery or adjacent infrastructure categories
- Existing executive relationships within Frances CAC 40 or SBF 120 accounts
- Experience building pipeline momentum with channel partners distributors and VARs in the French market
- Familiarity with Salesforce for account planning pipeline management and forecast accuracy
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Rubrik (RBRK) the Security and AI Operations Company leads at the intersection of data protection cyber resilience and enterprise AI acceleration. Rubrik Security Cloud delivers complete cyber resilience by securing monitoring and recovering data identities and workloads across clouds. Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions enforcing real-time guardrails fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes.
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Organizations rely on Rubrik for resilience against cyber attacks and operational disruptions with automation, fast recovery and easy cloud adoption.